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The Guardian - US
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Chris Michael, Andrew Witherspoon and Richard Luscombe

Biden, Trump and two very different classified document scandals, explained

The US attorney general, Merrick Garland
The attorney general, Merrick Garland, has named an independent special counsel to investigate Joe Biden's handling of classified documents. Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images

The discovery of classified documents in offices used by Joe Biden’s thinktank and in a locked storage unit in a garage near where the president keeps his Corvette may not be a criminal matter, but it does appear to have taken a political toll.

With a new Reuters/Ipsos poll on Thursday finding that Biden’s approval rating, which had risen at the end of 2022, was back down to just 40% – near the lowest level of his presidency – many Democrats are smacking their foreheads, fearing Biden has done exactly what his expected 2024 opponent, Donald Trump, was under investigation for doing.

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